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The Stand News trial ends with sentences of 21 months for former senior editor Chung Pui-kuen and 10 months for former deputy Patrick Lam. Since both had been in jail for 10-11 months, Chung will serve only nine more months, … Continue reading →

The tired ritual known as the policy address probably hit rock bottom in Donald Tsang’s time. Like Carrie Lam in later years, he was a bureaucrat good at implementing policies but devoid of any ideas on crafting them. That said, … Continue reading →

Smear-slamming season opens, with the Hong Kong government expressing anger over Jimmy Lai’s supporters appealing to the UN about his health in prison, and Beijing hitting back after Michael Kovig talks about being tortured during his detention in China. National … Continue reading →

An explanation from China Digital Times of the ‘garbage time of history’… When the result of a sporting match becomes a foregone conclusion and lesser players are subbed in to run out the clock, announcers often term it “garbage time.” … Continue reading →

One more NatSec sedition case from last week… Au Kin-wai, 58, appeared before Chief Magistrate Victor So at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Friday, where he pleaded guilty to one count of “knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious … Continue reading →

Three HKFP stories, starting with a 14-month sentence following the first Article 23 seditious T-shirt trial… Chu Kai-pong, 27, was convicted on Monday after he pleaded guilty to one count of “doing with a seditious intention an act or acts … Continue reading →

…but just time for a quick glimpse at the Standard’s daily attempt to talk up the property market. Someone bought five apartments for more than HK$15 million at the imaginatively (putridly?) named SkyeHi in beautiful Tuen Mun in July. They … Continue reading →

After three months in jail, 27-year-old Chu Kai-pong is convicted of ‘doing acts with seditious intent’ – wearing a T-shirt… Under the new security law, the maximum sentence for the offence has been increased from two years to seven years … Continue reading →

HKFP reports on an intimidation campaign against Hong Kong news media workers… The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) said in a statement on Friday that since June, dozens of journalists have received emails and letters with defamatory content to their … Continue reading →

The decline of a semi-open political system and civil society in NatSec-era Hong Kong extends beyond pan-dem parties, activist groups and unions – it’s also affecting tycoons’ ‘think-tanks’. A Standard editorial notes the imminent closure of property scion Lau Wai-ming’s … Continue reading →